India vs Australia 2nd T20 Match Playing 11, Full Squad: India’s first T20I against Australia ended up being a bit of a non-event with rain calling for an end to the match after just 9.4 overs. The most notable aspect of the brief play that was possible on the day was India captain Suryakumar Yadav rediscovering some form. Suryakumar smashed 39 in 24 balls while his deputy Shubman Gill scored 37 off 20 balls and India were standing strong on 97/1 in 9.4 overs when rain forced the players off.
Melbourne is known to be a comparitively more difficult place to score big but India’s batters are expected to not budge from their explosive ways. Gambhir wants his team to regularly go for totals in excess of 250, 260, and even if they end up getting bowled out for 120-130 in trying to do that and lose a few matches in the process, he wouldn’t mind.
India vs Australia Predicted XIs:
Their explosive batting in recent months is a clear indication that the batters have embraced Gambhir’s philosophy, months before the T20 World Cup gets underway in India and Sri Lanka, where the ‘Men in Blue’ will look to defend the title they won in the Americas last summer. India didn’t get to bowl in Canberra but as far as that department is concerned, they boast of Jasprit Bumrah’s class and Varun Chakravarthy’s guile, with the likes of Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel forming a potent attack that can also defend a small total should the batters fail to fire.
It would be a suprise if either side make any major changes to their squads considering there was hardly any action possible in the first T20I.
Here’s a look at the IND vs AUS Predicted Playing XIs:
IND predicted XI: Shubman Gill (vc), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy
AUS predicted XI: Mitchell Marsh (c), Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Short, Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Tanveer Sangha.
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Squads:
Australia: Mitchell Marsh(c), Travis Head, Josh Inglis(w), Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Philippe, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Josh Hazlewood, Sean Abbott, Matthew Short, Ben Dwarshuis, Tanveer Sangha
India: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson(w), Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Jitesh Sharma
